Car-door fastening



(No Model.)

G. O. KILTS. I GAB DOOR FASTENING.

No. 252,384. PatentedJan. 17,1882.

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CHRISTOPHER O. KILTS, OF HANNIBAL, MISSOURI.

CAR-009R FASTENING,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,384, dated January 17, 1882. Application filed October 29, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER O. KILTS, of Hannibal, Missouri, have made a newand. useful Improvement in Railway- Oar-Door "Fasteners, of which the following is a full,

spective, and respectively, of a portion of the forward edge of the car-door as held in the fastening-clip, of' the ldwer rear corner of the door and parts immediately therewith connected, the door beingclosed, of the lower rear corner of the door and the parts immediately therewith connected when the door is opened, and of the forward end of the bar used in looking the door when closed.

The same letters denote the same parts. The present device is valuable in that by means of it a sliding door can be fastened and into a horizontal position to operate as a brace to prevent the door from opening. The bar also serves, in connection with clips upon the side of the car, to wedge the door laterally and so as to close tightly the jointbetween the door and the side of the car.

side of afreight-car of the usualconstruction, saving as modified by the present improvement. i

B represents the door,-having the hangers b b, and sliding upon the rail(), in the customary manner, the direction of movement being indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. l.

D represents a bar, pivoted at d to'the side of the car, and capable of being turned from "the position shown in the full lines in Figs. 1

and 2 upward into the position shown in thefull lines in Fig. 4and indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1.

To close the door and fasten it, the door is moved until opposite the doorway, and then the bar D is turned upon its pivot 01 down into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, bringing the end d of the bar against the rear end -or edge, b, of the door, pressingthe latter endwise and forcing its forward end, b against and into the clip E, the clip serving as a stop and also to hold the forward end, If, of the door closely against the sideot the car. For this last-named purpose theprojection E of the clip is shaped and extended .so as to de-.

flect the end b as itenters the clip, toward the side of the car. At the same time the rear end, b, of the door .is forced closely against the side of the car, as follows The bar D, at its end d, is furnished with a plate or piece, d which projects beyond the end of the bar, and to come, when thebar is turned down, in-

side a clip, F, that is attached to the side of the car, and operates as a wedge to crowd its end bf against the side of the car.

The wedging may be effected by making the projection 01 wedge-shaped in cross-section,

as shown more distinctly in Fig. '5, or by inclining or beveling the projection f of the clip F, as seen more distinctly in Fig. 3 orboth means can be used in conjunction.

In opening the door the bar D is turned up into the position shown in Figs. 4. and l and the door moved back until its rear end, 11,, abuts against the bar, as seen in Fig. 4. The clip Gr serves to contine both the bar and the door and also to confine the bar when upturned and before the door is opened. Referring to the drawings, A represents the I I claim- 1. The combination of the side A, the door B, the bar D, having the projection (1 and the clip F, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the side A, the door B, the bar D,.having the projection 01 and the clips E and F, substantially as described. CHRISTOPHER O. KILTS.

Witnesses:

THOMAS H. BACON, I EDWARD P. OoNFRY. 

